The Commerce Department is amending antidumping duty rates set in its recently issued final determination on aluminum extrusions from Vietnam (A-552-837). Corrections to calculation errors result in slight increases to AD rates for all companies under investigation that received a rate separate from the Vietnam-wide entity.
If a reelected President Donald Trump uses the existing Section 301 tariffs program to hike tariffs on all Chinese goods by at least 60%, that's likely to survive a court challenge, said two law professors who spoke during a Washington International Trade Association webinar on the executive branch's ability to make deals and impose trade restrictions without congressional say-so.
The Court of International Trade in a decision made public Oct. 23 sustained the Commerce Department's rejection of eight Section 232 steel tariff exclusion requests from importer Seneca Foods Corp. on its tin mill product entries. Judge Gary Katzmann said the rejections were backed by substantial evidence and in line with agency practice.
CBP will bolster a number of existing initiatives in the coming months aimed at preventing the import of products made with forced labor, said Katie Woodson, assistant director within the operations and forced labor divisions of CBP's Office of Trade, during a panel on forced labor at last week's Western Cargo Conference.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is listing ethylphenidate, a central nervous system stimulant, under Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, it said in a notice released Oct. 21. Import and export restrictions set by the listing take effect Nov. 21.
SAN DIEGO -- Although CBP has yet to indicate exactly when the agency will publish details on the new continuing education requirement for customs brokers, the agency's final rule will come out in the "near term," an official said during an Oct. 19 panel discussion at the Western Cargo Conference (WESCCON). In the meantime, partner government agencies including the FDA are still hammering out details about what offerings they will provide for continuing education credit.
The Commerce Department will consider a potential new exemption from antidumping and countervailing duties for certain small, low-wattage, off-grid solar cells attached to an aluminum extrusion, it said in a trio of notices initiating changed circumstances reviews.
A group of parents and other family members of those who overdosed on fentanyl are asking the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to double the 25% Section 301 tariffs on lists 1 and 2 under the existing Section 301 action, combined with no de minimis eligibility for all Chinese goods.
Officials from Squire Patton Boggs said that if Donald Trump returns to the presidency, a 10% tariff or higher on a vast swath of imports could come very quickly, but what wouldn't be subject to the tariffs is not yet clear.
The Commerce Department is set to begin administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with September anniversary dates. Producers and exporters subject to administrative reviews on products from China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications on or about Nov. 18 in order to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.